Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Penthilus.
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Description of Greece
Pausanias
Pausanias makes Penthilus the bastard son of Orestes by Erigone — the Pelopid who, when the Heracleidae drive the house from the Peloponnese, leads Achaeans to seize Lesbos.
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Penthilus
Son of Orestes and Erigone — founder of the Penthilid line on Lesbos; carefully distinct from Penthilus son of Periclymenus.
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Lesbos
The island Penthilus' descendants colonize — the Aeolian bridge from Pelopid exile to the Asian shore.
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Orestes
Penthilus' father — the avenger whose illegitimate son carries Achaean blood to Lesbos after the Heraclid return.